Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I use Cryptoglance only for an at-a-glance view of how my miners are running at the pools. AFAIK it has not been updated in a while to support any vital miner control functions on the s9's on up...

[HagssFIN]

I had a board repaired at the bitmainwarranty, but it still isn't working correctly.
It occassionally keeps dropping to zero hash rate and asic status shows a full row of x's.
Reboot fixes it again for a variable amount of time.

I've tried different communication port on the controller and the problematic board only moves to a different chain and the controller in functioning normally.

I'm keeping in touch with bitmainwarranty to find out a good solution, but as a back-up plan I was wondering if someone here would be familiar with a script for restarting the cgminer/bmminer in case of some of the boards dropping to a zero hash rate?

This is a 11.85Th/s 550M pre-autotune model.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I had a board repaired at the bitmainwarranty, but it still isn't working correctly.
It occassionally keeps dropping to zero hash rate and asic status shows a full row of x's.
Reboot fixes it again for a variable amount of time.

I've tried different communication port on the controller and the problematic board only moves to a different chain and the controller in functioning normally.

I'm keeping in touch with bitmainwarranty to find out a good solution, but as a back-up plan I was wondering if someone here would be familiar with a script for restarting the cgminer/bmminer in case of some of the boards dropping to a zero hash rate?

This is a 11.85Th/s 550M pre-autotune model.

Use Awesome miner  and create a rule for the miner to restart or reboot whenever its rate drops below your trip point.

Works well, Awesome for me, especially with my under-volted s7's. When one gets cranky and drops a card I have the rule set to start CGminer again and the card comes back up. So far with s9's that works as well which is great considering the s9's -- especially the auto-tune ones -- don't like reboots...

[xppb00]

Hi,

I just realize that S9s are sold out. Any idea where to buy? or when is the next batch? I am going to buy 2 S9...

Thanks,

[alh]

Hi,

I just realize that S9s are sold out. Any idea where to buy? or when is the next batch? I am going to buy 2 S9...

Thanks,

Bitmain is observing the Chinese New Year. Check again next week (roughly February 5th). You might be able to find a previously owned one for sale on the "For Sale" sub-forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=75.0

[HagssFIN]

I had a board repaired at the bitmainwarranty, but it still isn't working correctly.
It occassionally keeps dropping to zero hash rate and asic status shows a full row of x's.
Reboot fixes it again for a variable amount of time.

I've tried different communication port on the controller and the problematic board only moves to a different chain and the controller in functioning normally.

I'm keeping in touch with bitmainwarranty to find out a good solution, but as a back-up plan I was wondering if someone here would be familiar with a script for restarting the cgminer/bmminer in case of some of the boards dropping to a zero hash rate?

This is a 11.85Th/s 550M pre-autotune model.

Use Awesome miner  and create a rule for the miner to restart or reboot whenever its rate drops below your trip point.

Works well, Awesome for me, especially with my under-volted s7's. When one gets cranky and drops a card I have the rule set to start CGminer again and the card comes back up. So far with s9's that works as well which is great considering the s9's -- especially the auto-tune ones -- don't like reboots...

Thanks, I'll consider this. I was wondering though if it could be some how wrote directly to the cgminer conf for example. (via ssh)

edit:
I tried now to swap one board with my another S9 and see if I get any new results, lets see...
edit2:
yep, same results as before, so it is indeed still a faulty hash board and other components are ok.

[GWhisper]

Hi,

I just realize that S9s are sold out. Any idea where to buy? or when is the next batch? I am going to buy 2 S9...

Thanks,

You didn't need to wait long - another 2 batches have been released with a ship date of 1st of March.

[xppb00]

Hi,

I just realize that S9s are sold out. Any idea where to buy? or when is the next batch? I am going to buy 2 S9...

Thanks,

You didn't need to wait long - another 2 batches have been released with a ship date of 1st of March.

Thanks for the update....

[kurbeks]

Diff increse will continue in 10-15% mark i guess.

[philipma1957]

This has been corrected and the number is now 967 on both websites.
So if you order that march 1 unit  be sure to check  and see that the numbers match on hashnest and bitmain  as they should .

Also if you purchased the s9 at the 917 rate  ask for a refund of around 60 usd.  I really would like to see and read if you got stuck and if they fix it.




as a heads up  coinbase is quoting btc at 960 usd

bitmain is quoting btc at 917

thus  you lose about 65 dollars if you use coinbase.

Hashnest has coins at 956

since hashnest and bitmain share the same website  and are under the same umbrella it is really fucking bad that they do not match


Take a look

[VentMine]

This is the second order in a row where they are giving a future shipping date. I know Chinese New Year is part of it but...

Do you think this will become standard? I mean, why not take our money ahead of time? The miner will devalue in the month wait and they can mine with it

[Micky25]

I think this is rather about the amount to produce, gauging interest.

[HagssFIN]

I'm pretty pleased with the service of Bitmain Warranty in Denver, CO.  
Even though the board they repaired for me didn't work properly after all (it keeps dropping to zero hash rate and shows a row of x's),
they handled fixing the situation very well.
They will send me a working hash board in exchange after I have sent (I just actually came back from the post office) the faulty board back for them.

I can definitely recommend them for fixing your miner.

And thank you Phil and the others who have shared previous experience with them.

[SaBit]

I'm pretty pleased with the service of Bitmain Warranty in Denver, CO.  
Even though the board they repaired for me didn't work properly after all (it keeps dropping to zero hash rate and shows a row of x's),
they handled fixing the situation very well.
They will send me a working hash board in exchange after I have sent (I just actually came back from the post office) the faulty board back for them.

I can definitely recommend them for fixing your miner.

And thank you Phil and the others who have shared previous experience with them.

They seem very slow to me, they have my S9 board since 18th Jan and still waiting for a quote

[VentMine]

I think this is rather about the amount to produce, gauging interest.

I don't know, they don't need to gauge interest these days because they sell out every batch.

[bitsink]

I think this is rather about the amount to produce, gauging interest.

I don't know, they don't need to gauge interest these days because they sell out every batch.

I am amazed at how many people still venture into mining when at best it is marginal. Really there are only very few scenarios when this makes sense for home miners. Maybe I am missing something here?

[philipma1957]

I think this is rather about the amount to produce, gauging interest.

I don't know, they don't need to gauge interest these days because they sell out every batch.

I am amazed at how many people still venture into mining when at best it is marginal. Really there are only very few scenarios when this makes sense for home miners. Maybe I am missing something here?

yes  you are missing people with cheap power  not lots  but 5 k watts to 15 kwatts   which is say 4 to 11 s9s

or 50th to  140th

50 th at 3 cent power = 700 usd a month after costs

140th at 3 cent power = 2100 usd a month

4 s9s = 5,600
11 s9s = 15,400


what  legal business    generates that income for that investment.


Many people can access smaller power amounts.

My house uses gas heat  for every 5 dollars spent on power to mine  I save 1 dollar in gas heat....  so from Oct 1 to April 1 I get a 20% break  on power.

WHAT KILLS the small guy  with a good power deal is gear that breaks.

[Swimmer63]

I think this is rather about the amount to produce, gauging interest.

I don't know, they don't need to gauge interest these days because they sell out every batch.

I am amazed at how many people still venture into mining when at best it is marginal. Really there are only very few scenarios when this makes sense for home miners. Maybe I am missing something here?

yes  you are missing people with cheap power  not lots  but 5 k watts to 15 kwatts   which is say 4 to 11 s9s

or 50th to  140th

50 th at 3 cent power = 700 usd a month after costs

140th at 3 cent power = 2100 usd a month



4 s9s = 5,600
11 s9s = 15,400


what  legal business    generates that income for that investment.


Many people can access smaller power amounts.

My house uses gas heat  for every 5 dollars spent on power to mine  I save 1 dollar in gas heat....  so from Oct 1 to April 1 I get a 20% break  on power.

WHAT KILLS the small guy  with a good power deal is gear that breaks.

You are also missing those of us have their miners hosted by others in areas of the country that have low power costs.
I used to mine out of my house, then office, then locally offsite, now in another state.  Some of us are crazier than others.  But all in all it's been both fun and profitable to be part of the revolution.  Which still continues to surprise.

[edonkey]

Looks like another couple of S9 batches are available. One is already sold out.

Better buy up this last batch fast. Last chance to do your part to drive the next difficulty over 13%

[d57heinz]

Looks like another couple of S9 batches are available. One is already sold out.

Better buy up this last batch fast. Last chance to do your part to drive the next difficulty over 13%

Well as Phil stated ask for a refund because I've been following this site for quite some time. You are indeed throwing money away. Good luck. http://www.bitcoinforecast.com  Keep an eye on this site for a week and let me know what ya all think;)

I have some more charts I'll share tomorrow   Worth a look!

BR